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New Monday, new week, new season of anime. It's time for fresh beginnings! The very first summer shows have already aired, but the bulk of them are starting over the course of this week. Also happening this week, where I am from, it is a holiday (July 4th in the US). So, if you are like me and will be out on the beach a lot this week, then here's to us, enjoying an irl beach episode.

In any case, please use this thread for all your anime discussion needs. I want to hear what your thoughts on the new batch of shows are. Thanks in advance for letting me know what to watch vs. skip when I get back from vacation!

As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here (also linked in the sidebar).

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Hey everybody! The post this week likely isn't going to show up on lemmy.world for a while (see here). So, this thread can be just the rest of us from smaller instances. We can say all the things about those world folks that we always wanted to say, but were too afraid to.

In all seriousness, this is the general discussion thread. Talk about what you have been watching, ask about what you should watch, warn others what not to watch...you get the idea.

As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here (also linked in the sidebar).

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A new Monday means it is a new general discussion thread. We are at or near the halfway point of the season for most of the winter shows. I plan on dedicating next week's thread to a midterm report of sorts, so look forward to it! In the meantime, please use this thread to talk about what you have watched recently, any questions you might have, recommendations, or whatever else strikes your fancy. Like usual, a couple examples:

• Are there any shows with more suggestive eyecatches than Bravern?
• Is Metallic Rouge some elaborate experiment to see how long an audience will watch pretty nonsense?
• Is Kensuke from Dungeon Meshi basically a Pokemon that Laios uses to fight?

As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here (also linked in the sidebar).

Discussion Thread

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Hello fine people of this lovely community. Like normal, this thread is the place to collect all your random anime thoughts, hot takes, and questions. Some example conversation starters:

• I really liked Rent a Girlfriend and was wondering what to watch next?
• My brain is too smooth to understand Evangelion. ELI5?
• My Neighbor Totoro is a trash movie. Allow me to count the ways...
• Is there any news about a season 2 of Usagi Drop? I really love where the manga goes after the anime and wanted to know when it might get adapted.

As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here (also linked in the sidebar).

Mod Update

Mod update time! Firstly, I want to thank everybody that has been engaged with this community over the past two weeks as we have brought this place to life. Did you know that this community is now one of the most active communities local to ani.social? It's true! We have certainly come a long way from where we started and there was just a couple months-old posts gathering dust. Thank you again to everybody involved so far, and here is to a healthy, active community going forward.

Now, it's serious mod time. There are a couple things I wanted to get the community's feedback on. If you don't want to post a comment publicly in this thread, feel free to pm me (if you can, sorry kbin users).

Question 1

1. How does the community feel about posts for shows like "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off"?

I hadn't been posting news about the show because I haven't really wanted to invite the debate that always seems to pop up about what is or isn't anime. I am inclined to lean towards a broad definition of anime and would include shows like this, Avatar, Star Wars Visions (at least season 1), etc. However, if the community here feels strongly otherwise, here is your chance to let me know.

Question 2

2. How are people feeling about having this community and the episode discussion community separate?

Other forums (reddit, ml pre-defederation) have tended to combine episode discussion threads and the news/updates/discussion threads into a single community. I personally think it makes it difficult for people to find the episode threads when they are separate and there is very little engagement with them. However, I also have liked how having them separate keeps this community more focused and the feed is less cluttered without a ton of episode threads each day. I am wondering if something like a weekly pinned megathread with links to aired episode discussion threads in this community might be a technical solution and the best of both worlds. This will need to be incorporated into the discussion bot, so it will have some lead time before it can be implemented. At this point, I am just brainstorming.

That is all for now (I say after typing out way too much text). Like always, feel free to reach out to the mod team with any issues or report posts/comments if they break the rules. As the community grows more active, it becomes harder to proactively see all the activity that is going on. Fortunately, there haven't really been any issues within the community yet. All of you are awesome!